# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-cooray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:27:18.956Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-cooray"
name: "Thomas Cooray"
slug: "thomas-cooray"
description: "Thomas Benjamin Cooray, OMI was a Sri Lankan cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Colombo from 1947 to 1976. Pope Paul VI made him a cardinal in 1965."
tagline: "Catholic cardinal. (1901–1988)"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1901-12-28"
deathDate: "1988-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Thomas Benjamin Cooray"
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    title: "Thomas Benjamin Cooray"
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    title: "Thomas Benjamin Cooray"
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    title: "තෝමස් කුරේ"
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    title: "Thomas Cooray"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump